Textile Design with Diploma in Creative Computing

Textile design is a discipline concerned with the creation of fabrics, surfaces, and materials through weaving, knitting, printing, embroidery, and digital processes. It combines aesthetic vision with an understanding of materials and construction, and it operates across fashion, interior design, product design, and increasingly technical and industrial applications. Adding a Diploma in Creative Computing to this degree makes for a genuinely distinctive combination, reflecting the growing role of digital tools, code-based design, and computational thinking in contemporary creative practice.

At Norwich University of the Arts this five-year full-time programme develops you as a textile designer with substantive digital and computational skills alongside your craft and design practice. You will explore the full range of textile processes and develop a distinctive creative voice, while the creative computing strand introduces you to programming, digital fabrication, generative design, and the ways in which computational tools are reshaping what is possible in design. The two strands are not taught in isolation but in dialogue, so that your making practice and your digital skills develop in relation to each other.

Norwich is a well-regarded specialist arts university with strong studio facilities and a culture of ambitious creative practice. The combination of textile design and creative computing prepares you for a design landscape in which the boundaries between traditional craft and digital technology are increasingly productive rather than fixed.

Graduates go on to careers in fashion and textile design, surface pattern and print, interior textiles, technical textile development, digital design, wearable technology, and creative consultancy. The computing diploma broadens your professional options further, into digital product design, creative technology, and roles at the intersection of design and software. Many graduates also continue to postgraduate study in textile design, fashion, or creative computing.